Alex Halpern is a composer, songwriter, singer, and currently a full time college student. In between school sessions, Alex has performed with his band at BB Kings and other venues around New York. This past year has been devoted to various composition projects for recording. When he was 17, Alex gave a solo performance at the House of Lords in London, England. He continues to broaden his musical education, first at NYU's Tisch School and now at Yeshiva University and the Bell School of Music.

Four-time Emmy award winning composer Laura Karpman maintains a vibrant career in film, videogame, concert and theater music. Her distinguished credits include scoring Steven Spielberg’s Emmy winning miniseries TAKEN, SANDLOT II; DOING TIME ON MAPLE DRIVE; A WOMAN OF INDEPEDENT MEANS; ODYSSEY 5 (Emmy nominated); THE LIVING EDENS which earned Karpman four Emmys, in addition to six other Emmy nominations. After writing music for Sony’s video game Everquest II, Karpman went on to become the resident orchestral composer of Sony Online Entertainment, where she continues to complete scores on numerous online interactive video games. She received a 2005 Game Audio Network (GANG) award for her videogame music.

In concert music, Karpman’s awards include the Ives Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, ASCAP Foundation grants, Meet the Composer grants, residencies at Tanglewood, McDowell Colony, and The Sundance Institute. Karpman received her doctorate from Juilliard where she studied with Milton Babbitt. Her concert music has been performed by The Los Angeles Philharmonic, Concordia, the American Composers’ Orchestra, The New York Youth Symphony, Richmond Symphony, Prague Symphony, the Young Musician’s Foundation Orchestra, and the Hollywood Studio Orchestra, among others. Recent works include ABOUT JOSHUA, for the Debussy Trio, COMMON TONE, for electric violist Martha Mooke, and NICK NAMES, for Boulder’s Sound Circle. Upcoming commissions include a work for the Juilliard School Centennial; SCAT, a bassoon concerto commissioned by the Prague Symphony; and MELTING POT, a series of multimedia works that combine spoken word, rap, opera and jazz out of Harlem Renaissance poetry.

A frequent composer for the theater, Karpman has composed 3 musical plays and scored many others for Los Angeles’ classical theatre company A Noise Within as well as the Georgia Shakespeare Festival. Her collaborations with actor/songer Tonya Pinkins have included adaptations of music for THAT OLD BLACK MAGIC and PUSH DE BUTTON performed at Jazz at Lincoln Center, and ANOTHER HUNDRED PEOPLE and I REMEMBER for Stephen Sondheim’s 75th Birthday performance at The New Amsterdam Theater.

DJ Radar is at the forefront of this revolutionary incorporation. Serving as the focal point and the momentum, he uses his training, knowledge and turntable expertise to complement classical music and progression.

DJ Radar refuses to adhere to artificial musical boundaries and is constantly searching for fresh and innovative ways to blur the lines between genres while bringing his music across the globe with tours in North America, Europe and Japan.

Through his constant search to take his art to the next level DJ Radar has collaborated with Raul Yanez to create an experimentally imaginative musical composition. In addition to their pioneering efforts with the Concerto for Turntable, Radar is the creative force behind "scratch notation."

This system, the first of its kind, documents all of the scratching techniques that can be performed on a turntable and translates them into Western musical notation. This set of symbols, called articulations, maps out a DJ's hand position for each note in a musical score. From Raul and Radar's work, this notation will help validate the turntable as a legitimate musical instrument.

Raul Yanez musical background spans jazz, latin, funk, hip hop and symphony orchestra. His strong work ethic, diverse skill set and passion for all kinds of music drives him forward as a musician, composer and all around artist.

Raul Yanez has been playing piano for over 25 years with 10 years of classical piano training. He can also play guitar, bass and percussion. He has taught jazz classes at ASU, worked with bands such as Sister Sledge, jazz artists like Joey Defrancesco and Jimmy Smith, vocalists, choirs and symphonic orchestras like C.P.R., Tuscon, and ASU, composed numerous pieces, some presented during international appearances in Hong Kong, Singapore, Jakarta, Japan, Thailand, Mexico and the US.

Yanez has always had a love for the roots of music and is now able to take that to a whole new level. First, working with DJ Radar on the transcription of musical track, Antimatter (Deep Concentration 3/oM records), and now completing the entire transcription and composition of the Concerto for Turntable, he is building the foundation of a new genre of music.